Fan and heatsink included with P4 2.4C good enough for 3 gig OC?

[anandb]

I will be using Arctic Silver 3 but I don't want to shell out extra $ for heatsink and CPU fan, but I also want to overclock my 2.4C with 800 FSB to about 2.8 or 3.0.

Do you think the fan and the heatsink that comes with the processor is good enough or do I need to buy a seperate one? If so what would you recommend?

By the way I have 1 stick of 512 Corsair DDR400 PC3200 ram. Is that good enough for this overclock or no?

 

[KGB1]

Originally posted by: anandb
I will be using Arctic Silver 3 but I don't want to shell out extra $ for heatsink and CPU fan, but I also want to overclock my 2.4C with 800 FSB to about 2.8 or 3.0.

Do you think the fan and the heatsink that comes with the processor is good enough or do I need to buy a seperate one? If so what would you recommend?

By the way I have 1 stick of 512 Corsair DDR400 PC3200 ram. Is that good enough for this overclock or no?

Well given that you have a 2.4C version of the Pentium 4, you already have 800MHz FSB. The only way to reach 3-3.2Ghz is to overclock you FSB even further to 250 Mhz (1000 FSb effectively) That also means your current Memory Corsair DDR3200 is not sufficient, you can surely overclock it but it would not be totally stable. You can purchase a DDR3500version. If you can pull it off with extreme cooling then you would effective get 3.6GHZ

If you had purchased a 2.4B Pentium 4 cpu, all you would have had to do was RAISE the FSB to 200 (800 effectively) from the factory setting of 133Mhz (533FSB effectively) to achieve the 3.5-3.6 ghz mark with extreme cooling or overclock to 166 fsb to 3Ghz

You have a great CPU.. you can moderarely raise the FSB to 225 (900) and cruise at 2.7GHZ Thats the best bet considering you RAM and CPU.

What is your chipset BTW?

 

[RalfHutter]

The stock heatsink will be starting to run out of steam around 250FSB but you'll probably still be OK. Just keep an eye on your temps.

Since you've only got one stick of RAM you won't be able to take advantage of the speed increase you can get by running in Dual Channel mode. You'll also need to run your RAM asynchronously at 5:4 to keep it's speed down to 200MHz when the CPU is running at 250MHz, otherwise you should be fine.

BTW - I'm assuming this is all going on an 800FSB Springdale or Canterwood board...